Senegalese sentenced for mobile theft

Magistrate
Fattoumata Darboe of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court has sentenced Omar Jobe, a
Senegalese to serve a three-month community services following his guilty plea
to a theft charge.

Mr.
Jobe was accused of stealing a Samsung mobile phone from Modou Lamin Camara on
11th January, at Tippa Garage in Bokoteh. The phone is said to cost six
thousand dalasi.

Giving
her judgment, Magistrate Darboe said she listened to the facts as narrated by
the prosecution and as confirmed in Mr. Jobe’s own assertion, all the essential
elements of stealing as provided under Section 244 and 245 of the Criminal Code
was established.

She
said Section 256 (a) provides that a person found of stealing from a person is
liable five years imprisonment conviction

She
then released Mr. Jobe on probation to serve 3 months community service with
the Gambia police force at Serrekunda. She said she took the decision by the
power granted to act by Section 267 of the Criminal Procedure Code.